April 10 1919

Dear Honey,  Well this is the last day of my leave here, so I thought I would write to you and also send a few pictures of your soldier boy home.  Gee I wish it was the real thing going instead of just the picture.  I also sent a few souvenirs home in a cigar box, maybe I might get over there before the box does.  I wish I could.  The last few days I have been staying around Monte Carlo, on acct of being broke.no I am not the only one broke why some of the boys had only been here about three days and had twice as much money as I had and were dead broke, I have about ten francs yet out of 225 that I brought with me.  Oh well when I get back to camp I will get paid about (127 franc) beside 38 francs that is owed to me and then I will be ready for another leave, that is if we don't go home soon.  Yesterday I wrote a letter to Laura and one to Grace, sending each of them a picture that leave me ten, so I will send four in this letter and having already sent four, you can do as wish with tplenty to hem, also do as you wish with anything I send home to you.  I sent the pair of cuff links for papa.  The other two picture I will keep for myself to look at and see how I look (ha ha).  I also sent in mother's letter from Nice, a film taken in front of our hotel.  I did not have the franc and time to have them printed so I thought I would send it home.  Honey I would give anything in the world to have you here with me, when I was out sightseeing and walking around.  I have heard a lot about this place from Cannes to Menton,  that included all the cities along the coast.  It is worth the trip here for us boys and does a world of good.  Paris now after seeing this place can't do it any way because I'm broke and in Paris for three days it takes five to six hundred francs.  I am glad that you did not get over here in the R.C. or any other branch service for over here in the U.S. service and lets that are not well I won't say more about it now, but I am sure glad my sisters, wife or any girl friends are not here to be used as a tool.   Oh what a grand and glorious feeling a real pillow, but I will soon go back to the old style again wooden spring and shaw with the blankets and no pillow, but that is the army life.  Also back to the dear old mess kit and army bean.  At the hotel we were served in hotel style and had fairly good meal.  I had plenty to eat.  I ordered a lunch from the Y. Canteen to take with me on the train.  Oh yes we take ration with us for a three day trip, including bully beef, gold fish, and hard tacks also some baked bean but a fellow get tired eating that kind of stuff for three days.  I see in the paper where we will be discharge 48 hours after landing in the states and believe me it won't take me long to get home, so it would not be of any use of you coming to meet me and beside I don't know where we will land.  If everything go alright so I heard, we are booked to sail May 10 or as near to that as possible, that is what our commanding officer said to us at Verdun and then it might fall thru you can't depend on re-post here in the army.  Why some of the AEF boys were already on the boats and then they got orders to get off and go back to where they cam from.  Such is the luck of some of the boys.  Well honey I have run out of news so will stop now and send to my darling wife all my love 7 kisses from her soldier hubby,

                                                                                        Clarence.